It is typical for politically-engaged people to note the weaknesses and defects of their own side, while overestimating the strength and prowess of their opponents. This is not a bad instinct, but sometimes its worth stepping back and trying to view the whole scene from a neutral perspective. It is possible a neutral or objective observer would conclude that the Left has just had about the worst month in longer than I can recall.

First came the Sandra Fluke controversy. What looked like a well-staged triumph for the Left because of a rare overreach by Rush Limbaugh resulted instead in a ferocious blowback against Bill Maher, Louis C.K. (cancelled from the White House correspondents dinner because of his vile comments about Sarah Palin), and HBO, while Rushs ratings have spiked and advertisers came groveling back after the anti-Rush boycott was revealed to have been trumped up by Media Matters. Meanwhile, while the media elites identify with Fluke as one of their own, it is less clear that ordinary Americans think the government owes free contraception to 30-year old college students.

“advertisers came groveling back after the anti-Rush boycott was revealed to have been trumped up by Media Matters”

Makes you wonder how those advertisers stay in business. The most casual Freeper could tell most of the supposed outrage came from people who don’t listen to his show anyway. Or, rather, only listen to have something to complain about. Regular Rush listeners might think he went too far, but that’s the sort of thing they expect.

Wrong! A lot of that money ended up in incumbents' pockets and companies like Solyndra, so it was a massive, though quiet success.

Signature legislative achievement known as ObamaCare about to get dumped as unconstitutional.

Wrong! That just means they need to "double down."

A nation more divided and angry than any time since the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Wrong! Ripe for revolution, baby! The discontent of the proletariat!

Trillions in debt, and no prospect for getting out of it.

Wrong! Debt is a very effective way to keep the commoners occupied with unemployment and economic worriesand anyway, devaluing the dollar would help put America in its place.

An economy still teetering on the precipice which could be sent over the edge from the breeze of a butterflys wings.

Wrong! "Teetering on the precipice" is a defeatist bourgeois concept that has no place in the Democratic People's Republic of America. Any more of this individualist counter-revolutionism, and you'll be sent to a reeducation center for life.

A population that has never more distrusted the government.

Wrong, wrong, wrong! It's time for the proletariat to rise up in righteous anger and overthrow the corrupt old constitutional government. The new Democratic People's Republic of America will restore dignity to the working class, crush Republican racism forever, bring economic and social justice to all who deserve it, and finally establish the long-awaited workers' and peasants' paradise.

Id say the left is as bankrupt as the country.

Aw, cut it out! You've got to admit Marxism worked out successfully in the Soviet Union, communist China, North Korea, Cambodia, Cuba, et cetera. What more could tyrants have wanted?

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